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What to learn next, Swift or Rust
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this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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Rust is the only language I know of that is actively being used at the kernel level all the way through to the web app level. Compare that with Swift which is not only mostly tied to a single ecosystem, but even the "cross platform" stuff like libdispatch is littered with code like:
if #available(macOS 10.12, iOS 10.0, tvOS 10.0, watchOS 3.0, *)Note libdispatch runs on older versions of Apple Platforms than those version numbers. The backwards compatible code paths aren't just for other operating systems - that's how it works on older Apple platforms too.